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April 19, 2009

G12: Red Sox 2, Orioles 1

Lester pitched seven shutout innings, allowing four hits and two walks while striking out nine.

Kevin Youkilis got the Sox offense going with a leadoff double in the second. He scored two outs later on Mike Lowell's single to right. In the fifth, Nick Green doubled and scored on Dustin Pedroia's single.

Since Jonathan Papelbon had worked Friday and Saturday, Takashi Saito was called in for the ninth, after Ramon Ramirez retired the Orioles in order in the eighth. It was the second consecutive day of work for Saito, something Terry Francona said he was determined not to do.

Saito allowed singles to Nick Markakis and Aubrey Huff to begin the inning. Ty Wigginton's groundout to third scored Markakis, cutting the lead to 2-1. With the tying run at second, Saito got Luke Scott to line out to right and then struck out pinch-hitter Gregg Zaun.

Uehara, a 34-year-old right-hander, pitched for 10 years in Japan before signing with the Orioles as a free agent. In two starts, against the Rangers and Yankees, he has a combined 10-12-8-5-3 line. ... Which is actually better than Lester's 11-18-11-2-10 showing so far.

87 comments:

Beckett's suspension is knocked down to 5 games -- a moot point, since it's still one start. The Red Sox want him to accept it, so he will:

"Everybody has to answer to somebody, and my boss told me this was the best thing for the ball club. If it was up to me, obviously, we would have gone through with this whole thing, because I don't think I deserve even one game. When your boss tells you that something is best for the whole group, that's what we do."

God bless him but Damon sucks in the outfield now. He was not running hard at all for that shallow fly and he had a better view then the infielder that was running out looking over his wrong shoulder with his back to the ball. There are many holes in this team's defense. What is Wang's ERA now. It was 20 something before the game. Wow just wow. I thought Lester had it bad.

Every homer that goes out of the new Yankee Stadium now, there will be speculation if it's because of how the park was built. Of how the dimensions in right field are to shallow. I love it! The Yankees are questioning their 1.5 billion stadium after 4 games!

Also the exhibition games they had there in the pre-season. It's hard to judge weather-related effects in just a couple months, but there've been crazy amounts of home runs hit there in so few innings.

You all were right--it was a great day to be outside--but being in the sun helped. We took a risk and sat in the good seats by third, and made it through the whole game there, even though the place was packed. Great win.

9casey: Yeah, it seems like the norm at YS is that bleachers and upper deck are filled, but empties reign in the main level and especially the "between the dugouts" first 9 rows, as we all pretty much expected.

Didn't get talked about in detail here, but I checked out the controversial HR by Posada (tipped off my an email my mom sent me: "too bad the Yanks cheated to win"), and I'll just say this: Remember how they stepped up security after the Maier play? Because there was that walkway right behind the wall--had people been in their seats, they wouldn't have been able to interfere. So with all this talk of controversial HRs and replays, why didn't they attempt to avoid possible interference when they built the new park??